There’s by no means been an Apple TV+ present with extra viewers than Severance. The deeply bizarre office drama even surpassed the beloved Ted Lasso in viewers, Apple itself revealed on Wednesday.
And rankings charts concur — Severance is extraordinarily common.
Severance pulls in additional viewers than Ted Lasso
Throughout its first season, again in 2022, Severance was already common sufficient to make it the No. 1 most-streamed collection for one week. However there’s no higher indication of the energy of its fandom than viewers got here again for season two although behind-the-scenes issues resulted in a three-year wait.
However return they did, and in massive numbers.
“In keeping with Apple, by means of Season 1 and half of Season 2, Severance already has amassed extra viewers than every other Apple TV+ collection, together with three seasons of Ted Lasso, turning into the #1 most-watched collection globally on Apple TV+,” Deadline reported on Wednesday.
Ted Lasso was an enormous hit — the primary for Apple TV+. It stayed close to the prime of rankings charts throughout a lot of its three-season run, so it’s a major milestone for an Apple collection to surpass it.
The consultants agree
If anybody is suspicious that Apple is fudging the numbers, film and TV search engine JustWatch publishes a weekly rankings checklist of the ten hottest collection on streaming, and Severance sits at No. 1 for the week of February 10 by means of February 16. It held the identical spot the week earlier than. And rival service Reelgood put the present within the No. 2 slot on its checklist for top-rated collection for the week of Feb. 6 to Feb. 12, the latest for which information is accessible.
Within the hit collection, Mark Scout (performed by Adam Scott) leads a group of staff who’ve undergone a severance process that surgically divides their reminiscences between their work and private lives. This daring experiment in “work-life steadiness” is known as into query as Scout finds himself on the heart of an unraveling thriller that forces him to confront the true nature of his work … and of himself.
Severance season two brings a brand new episode every week. The fifth could be watched now, with the sixth approaching Friday. Within the meantime, be certain you didn’t miss something essential with Cult of Mac’s recaps of episode one, episode two, episode three, episode 4 and episode 5.
Watch on Apple TV+
Streaming Severance, Ted Lasso plus many others comes with a subscription to Apple TV+. The service is $9.99 per 30 days with a seven-day free trial. You may as well get it through any tier of the Apple One subscription bundle.
And Apple’s streaming video service additionally features a library of drama, comedies, musicals, kids’s reveals, nature documentaries, and so forth.
